Unconventional Grief Drama ‘Invention’ Trailer with Callie Hernandez
by Alex Billington
March 27, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“You see way more than what you see together with your eyes open…” An official trailer is out for this summary, experimental indie movie titled Invention, made by filmmakers Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens as a collaborative effort. This initially premiered on the 2024 Locarno Movie Competition final 12 months and gained an award there, and it additionally performed on the 2025 New Administrators/New Movies at MoMA lately, with a theatrical launch set for April. Within the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden demise, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental therapeutic gadget. Starring Callie Hernandez, Sahm McGlynn, Tony Torn, Lucy Kaminsky, and Joe Swanberg. The movie fictionalizes the aftermath of Hernandez’s father’s demise utilizing an actual archive of various TV appearances he made in its place well being physician within the late 90s via 2020. The storyline additionally revolves across the patent of an experimental therapeutic gadget that turns into his daughter’s (performed by Hernandez because the character of ‘Carrie Fernandez’) sole inheritance. That includes different impartial filmmakers in appearing roles, Invention serves as a portrait of America in its late interval, a rustic by which widespread disappointment infuses the tradition with hopeful fictions & poisonous nostalgia. For cinephiles solely…
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Hernandez & Stephens’ movie Invention, direct from YouTube:
Within the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s surprising demise, his daughter (feat. Callie Hernandez) receives his patent for an experimental therapeutic gadget. That includes archive from actress Callie Hernandez’s precise late father, Invention explores the method of grieving a sophisticated mum or dad, and the filmmaking itself turns into part of the method. Invention is a collaborative movie directed by American indie author / filmmaker Courtney Stephens, director of The American Sector, Terra Femme, and Invention beforehand. The screenplay is written by and it is also produced by each Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens. With cinematography by Rafael Palacio Illingworth. This primary premiered on the 2024 Locarno Movie Competition final 12 months, the place this gained the Pardo Award for Finest Efficiency. Hernandez & Stephens’ Invention movie will likely be launched in choose US theaters (first at Metrograph in NYC) beginning April 18th, 2025 this spring. Anybody?
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